cheeselep

English

Alternative forms
  • cheeselip
  • cheeselop, cheeslib, chislock, choslip (dialectal)
  • keeslip (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English cheslip (“rennet”), from Old English cȳslybb, cīeslybb (“rennet”, literally “cheese medicine, cheese potion”), equivalent to cheese +‎ lib. Cognate with Middle Dutch kaeslibbe (“rennet”), Middle High German kǣselap (“rennet, acidic liquid”).

Noun

cheeselep (plural cheeseleps)

  1. The dried stomach of a calf, used for curdling milk for cheese.
  2. Rennet.
  3. A bag in which rennet is kept.

References
  • cheeselep in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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